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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What cartoon did Eva and her mother just not understand?
(a) The Vancouver Gazette cartoon.
(b) The television cartoons.
(c) The Time Magazine cartoon.
(d) The New Yorker cartoon.

2. What, according to Eva and her parents, was the "big fear?"
(a) That you would not be able to buy a car.
(b) That you'd be broke and live in The Bowery.
(c) That you would not be able to buy a house.
(d) That you would become too "American."

3. What did the teacher in Vancouver decide to call Alina because she could not pronounce her name?
(a) Elaine.
(b) Ann.
(c) Kitty.
(d) Ali.

4. Where was the Steiner's house in Vancouver?
(a) On top of the mountain.
(b) On Harbor Rd.
(c) At the edge of the city.
(d) The harbor.

5. Just before leaving for college, how did Eva describe herself?
(a) Like a mosaic made of up fragments, but still an immigrant.
(b) Lost between two worlds.
(c) Like a lost soul.
(d) Lost between two languages.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the favorite singers among Eva's parent's friends in Canada?

2. Who did Eva relate to best in Canada and consider her "real friends?"

3. How did the Wydra's travel from the Canadian port city to Vancouver?

4. What did Eva confide to Mrs. Steiner?

5. When the Wydra's arrived in Canada, how far away were they from Vancouver in Eva's mind?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Canada's work ethic affect Eva's father and his view of himself?

2. In Eva's attempt at secrecy, what role did Mrs. Steiner play? Why did Eva place her is this position? What characteristics did Mrs. Steiner have that made Eva behave differently towards her?

3. Shortly after the Wydra's arrived in Canada, Eva had a bad dream. What was it and why was it significant?

4. How did Eva see Mr. Rosenberg after the Wydra's had been in Canada for a bit? How did he change in Eva's eyes and why did she perceive him differently after a short time?

5. When Eva dreamed of staying in Poland, how did she imagine her life would have been had she stayed? What was "normal" to Eva and why did she believe that life in Poland would have been "normal?"

6. Once in Canada, how did Eva keep her privacy? What did she hold back? How was she careful in what she said about the difficulties that her family was facing?

7. How were Eva's views of communism different from her classmates?

8. Give an example of how the Wydra's became paralyzed by choices and how they made decisions?

9. When Eva and her friends would see a foreign film in Poland, what questions would they ask about the characters in the film? How does this relate to Eva's life in Canada?

10. Why did Eva believe that speech was a class signifier?

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